To protect intellectual property, the involved organizations partition the world into six regions, each of
which can only use the DVD player and DVD disc with the given regional code.
The illustration on the right shows symbols of the six regions. One DVD player with a given regional
code cannot play disc of another regional code. The partition of regional codes is shown as follows:
1. Canada, USA;
2. Japan, Europe, South Africa, Middle East
3. Southeast Asia, East Asia
4. Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Central America, Mexico, Latin America, Caribbean Sea;
5. Russia, India, Africa, Korea, Mongolia.
6. China.
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